When no kscreen config is available a new one is generated which contains the same ID for the first and second monitor. Starting KDE with this configuration causes a startup failure. If i change the ID of the secondary monitor KDE starts normally. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove any kscreen config file from ~/.local/share/kscreen 2. restart KDE 3. KDE fails to start and returns to SDDM 4. Edit the newly generated config file in ~/.local/share/kscreen and change the ID of the secondary monitor (changing one digit is enough) 5. Restart KDE 6. KDE starts without any trouble Actual Results: First and secondary monitor have the same ID in the config Expected Results: Different IDs for first and secondary monitor GPU "ZOTAC GeForce GT 630 Synergy Edition": http://www.zotac.com/products/graphics-cards/geforce-600-series/gt-630/product/gt-630/detail/geforce-gt-630-synergy-edition.html Output of "kscreen-console outputs": START: Requesting Config kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze)" kscreen: launcherDataAvailable: "org.kde.KScreen.Backend.XRandR" kscreen: Primary output changed from KScreen::Output(Id: 638 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) to KScreen::Output(Id: 638 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) kscreen: Launcher finished with exit code 1 , status 0 kscreen: Service for requested backend already running kscreen: Primary output changed from KScreen::Output(Id: 638 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) to KScreen::Output(Id: 638 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) Received config. Took 271 milliseconds Screen: maxSize: QSize(16384, 16384) minSize: QSize(8, 8) currentSize: QSize(3360, 1050) ----------------------------------------------------- Id: 636 Name: "DVI-I-0" Type: "Unknown" Connected: false ----------------------------------------------------- Id: 637 Name: "DVI-I-1" Type: "Unknown" Connected: false ----------------------------------------------------- Id: 638 Name: "DVI-I-2" Type: "Unknown" Connected: true Enabled: true Primary: true Rotation: 1 Pos: QPoint(0,0) MMSize: QSize(474, 296) Size: QSize(1680, 1050) Clones: None Mode: "639" Preferred Mode: "639" Preferred modes: ("639") Modes: "639" "" QSize(1680, 1050) 59.8833 "640" "" QSize(1680, 1050) 59.9543 "641" "" QSize(1280, 1024) 75.0247 "642" "" QSize(1280, 1024) 60.0197 "643" "" QSize(1280, 960) 60 "644" "" QSize(1152, 864) 75 "645" "" QSize(1024, 768) 75.0286 "646" "" QSize(1024, 768) 70.0694 "647" "" QSize(1024, 768) 60.0038 "648" "" QSize(800, 600) 75 "649" "" QSize(800, 600) 72.1876 "650" "" QSize(800, 600) 60.3165 "651" "" QSize(800, 600) 56.25 "652" "" QSize(640, 480) 75 "653" "" QSize(640, 480) 72.8088 "654" "" QSize(640, 480) 59.9405 EDID Info: Device ID: "xrandr-SyncMaster-H1AK500000" Name: "SyncMaster" Vendor: "" Serial: "H1AK500000" EISA ID: "" Hash: "7c58f528b24dbb4a3f62aa7c73a9070e" Width: 47 Height: 30 Gamma: 2 Red: QQuaternion(scalar:1, vector:(0.639648, 0.328125, 0)) Green: QQuaternion(scalar:1, vector:(0.299805, 0.599609, 0)) Blue: QQuaternion(scalar:1, vector:(0.150391, 0.0595703, 0)) White: QQuaternion(scalar:1, vector:(0.3125, 0.329102, 0)) ----------------------------------------------------- Id: 655 Name: "DVI-I-3" Type: "Unknown" Connected: true Enabled: true Primary: false Rotation: 1 Pos: QPoint(1680,0) MMSize: QSize(474, 296) Size: QSize(1680, 1050) Clones: None Mode: "639" Preferred Mode: "639" Preferred modes: ("639") Modes: "639" "" QSize(1680, 1050) 59.8833 "640" "" QSize(1680, 1050) 59.9543 "641" "" QSize(1280, 1024) 75.0247 "642" "" QSize(1280, 1024) 60.0197 "643" "" QSize(1280, 960) 60 "644" "" QSize(1152, 864) 75 "645" "" QSize(1024, 768) 75.0286 "646" "" QSize(1024, 768) 70.0694 "647" "" QSize(1024, 768) 60.0038 "648" "" QSize(800, 600) 75 "649" "" QSize(800, 600) 72.1876 "650" "" QSize(800, 600) 60.3165 "651" "" QSize(800, 600) 56.25 "652" "" QSize(640, 480) 75 "653" "" QSize(640, 480) 72.8088 "654" "" QSize(640, 480) 59.9405 EDID Info: Device ID: "xrandr-SyncMaster-H1AK500000" Name: "SyncMaster" Vendor: "" Serial: "H1AK500000" EISA ID: "" Hash: "7c58f528b24dbb4a3f62aa7c73a9070e" Width: 47 Height: 30 Gamma: 2 Red: QQuaternion(scalar:1, vector:(0.639648, 0.328125, 0)) Green: QQuaternion(scalar:1, vector:(0.299805, 0.599609, 0)) Blue: QQuaternion(scalar:1, vector:(0.150391, 0.0595703, 0)) White: QQuaternion(scalar:1, vector:(0.3125, 0.329102, 0)) ----------------------------------------------------- Id: 656 Name: "HDMI-0" Type: "Unknown" Connected: false
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i think this issue has been resolved a long time ago. the setup on the specific machine is working just fine.